at yotam's funeral, a drum kit.on's will have meaning. keeping the human spirit. with a high human spirit, even in a dark place like hamas captivity, he finished his life like a free person. iris haim talking to our correspondent lucy manning about her son, yotam. mystery surrounds the discovery of seven dead giant tortoises that have been found in woodland in devon. police say they are thought to be aldabra giant tortoises — the largest in the world — which can live up to 150 years. the national trust said its teams were horrified when the animals were found on their land and anyone with any information should contact police. now, take a look at this — erosion is carving dramatic features into this, the world's biggest iceberg — in what's likely to be the final months of its existence. the iceberg — known as a23a — is being ground down by the warmer air and water it's encountering as it drifts slowly away from the antarctic. but it's not seen as a consequence of climate change — and as it melts, it will have benefi

at yotam's funeral, a drum kit.heir family's last name means life, and iris is determined her sons will have meaning. keeping the human spirit. with a high human spirit, even in a dark place like hamas captivity, he finished his life like a free person. aljazeera's gaza bureau chief wael al dahdouh has now left gaza for egypt to receive medical treatment. he was injured in a strike last month, in which his cameraman was killed. five members of his family have been also killed since the war broke out on 7th october. i spoke to a colleague and friend of wael — our gaza correspondent rushdi abualouf who is in istanbul. i began by asking him about wael�*s condition. he was injured in the air strike, and there was shrapnel in his hand that damaged in a nerve in his hand. also some shrapnel to his abdomen. they were trying to treat ten in gaza, but given the circumstances around the hospitals and the lack of medicine and medical equipment, they couldn't do anything but, you know, try to keep his wounds clean. but he was f

at yotam's funeral, a drum kit.dark place like hamas captivity, he finished his life like a free person. iris haim talking to our correspondent lucy manning about her son, yotam. mystery surrounds the discovery of seven dead giant taught us is found in woodlands in devon and they are thought to be aldabra giant taught us is that can live up to 100 years. in this forest near exeter, a shocking find. this is one of the seven daughters is found dead. police believe the aldabra is one of the largest species in the world and to find so many dumped in this way is highly unusual. the national trust to own the land say their teams were horrified to discover the animals. five were found near the entrance to the forest last friday and another two were found a few days before that. you would normally only see the cortices in a zoo or nature documentary, but adrian graham has 27 on his farm in lincoln shed —— these cortices. 27 on his farm in lincoln shed -- these cortices.— these cortices. they wouldn't survive naturally _ the

at yotam's funeral, a drum kit.rmined her sons will have meaning. keeping the human spirit. with a high human spirit, even in a dark place like hamas captivity, he finished his life like a free person. let's look at some other stories making news. hundreds of people are being evacuated from a tourist resort in china after heavy snow left them stranded for a week. avalanches cut off the main road to the area and trapped them in the western region of xinjiang. in some places, the snow was seven metres deep. military helicopters have been ferrying in food and flying tourists out. venice is launching its day pass purchases for tourists via online booking. officials are hoping to limit excessive visitor numbers to the historic italian city on peak days. there are 29 days from late april to mid—july where the day's pass, costing five euros, are required for entrance. venice draws millions of visitors each year. the world health organization says the global use of tobacco is declining but warns that it will take another 30

well joining us now is the israeli journalist yotam confino and yotam , this is a tense and yotam, thisoment. >> of course, it's not long after after there have been some extrajudicial , uh, extrajudicial, uh, assassinations , uh, people assassinations, uh, people worried about the spill—over effects of this war, potentially in lebanon, potentially in other countries. is that what this visit is about? >> it's both about that. but obviously it's also about the us policy towards gaza. >> the united states would like to persuade israel to come up with finally to come up with some sort of a viable solution for the day after hamas in gaza , for the day after hamas in gaza, because the us doesn't see eye to eye with israel when it comes to eye with israel when it comes to this. israel has expressed , to this. israel has expressed, uh, basically that they don't want to see the palestinian authority taking charge in gaza. that's something that the united states would like to see. so they're now to find they're trying now to find common ground here. course, common ground here. of course, blinken

>> today , yotam? thank you very >> today, yotam? thank you very much indeed . >> today, yotam? you very much indeed. but >> today, yotam? thank you very much indeed . but yeah, no much indeed. but yeah, it's no doubt that president netanyahu said destroy hamas in said he would destroy hamas in gaza. said he would destroy hamas in gaza . and obviously what the gaza. and obviously what the pictures coming out and the growing realisation in some people is that that sort of almost the same thing as destroying people because hamas is dispersed within the population . population. >> but whose fault is that? yeah yes. >> yeah. but that's that's the argument . argument. >> excuse me. i'm sorry. >> clearing my throat for you. >> clearing my throat for you. >> the argument there is , if >> the argument there is, if hamas dispersed itself within the population as it does, does that mean it can therefore act with impunity and is almost protected by international law to do what it wants to do, which was a massacre ? yes. so it's was a massacre? yes. so it's well, you can't win in this argum

well, we can speak now to the israeli journalist yotam confino and yotam , this is such sad news, yotamfor many allies and friends of israel in the west who desperately want to see that two state solution and particularly sad, given that after the abraham accords and as things were getting closer to normalisation with saudi arabia , normalisation with saudi arabia, things really looked like there could have been a palestinian state back on the table and then october changed all of it . october changed all of it. >> it did. it changed a lot, obviously. but i do think it's important to mention that what the international system wants and what the israelis and the palestinians want, it's simply not the same. we had the same dilemma when the international system kept pressing for the palestinian authority to be the one taking over control of gaza. the palestinians don't want that. the israelis don't want that. the israelis don't want that. now we have a similar situation where the international system keeps yelling for a two state solution. the israelis don't want it. and also, if you ask t